Ripped through "The Year of Our War" last week, read Brandon Sanderson's debut "Elantris" and Fritz Leiber's "The Three of Swords" over the four-day weekend, then started re-reading Mieville's "The Scar" last night.

duke wrote:Encryptic - I'm finding MS&T to be entertaining, but not compelling. I hope to have the whole series finished by Christmas.

Gotcha.

Halfway through Iron Council . Wanted to say something about M John Harrison - In Viriconium was definately the best story in the collection, and A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium the hardest to understand. I was constantly at a loss while reading the book, but for some reason I liked them. I lik...

Finished Memory, Sorrow and Thorn book 1, The Dragonbone Chair. It had some good moments, but it is loooooongwinded. Williams seems to be aiming for big and epic and a coming of age story, but its a little too big and slow. The coming of age parts of the story work best so far, and that's what is k...

Finished "Good Omens" and am about half-way through "The Year of Our War" by Steph Swainston.

Finished "Deadhouse Gates" and started "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Finished "Gardens of the Moon" and will be starting "Deadhouse Gates" today.

Erikson is far from complete but he does have 5 of his titles out (and 6 coming in February)- and they are all pretty large books, so there is a lot to catch up with - it's just utterly fascinating, and this is coming from someone who has been reading it for some years now, and I'm still not tired ...

Finished "The Warrior-Prophet" and started reading Tim Powers' "The Anubis Gates".

Martin was heavily inspired by the real world history and politics and personalities of England's War of the Roses and the court intrigues of the early Tudors (particularly Henry 8 & his second Queen and his court). All of that ugliness and jockeying for power is inspired by just as much ugline...

Cool, but uber-geeky at the same time...

This guy put all six Star Wars movies up on a screen at the same time and compared them to each other, with some interesting results.

I'd say I'm in the same camp as Roland. Variol Farseer: I can totally understand not liking the series. It's not for everyone and I respect your opinion more for being well-expressed and thoughtful. You've made some valid points. :D However, I'm of the opinion that the series wouldn't be as readable...

Encryptic writes, Nice to see that epic fantasy can still produce work on the level of Song of Ice and Fire, among others. haven't read it. stumbled on bakker which led me to the Three Seas forum which turned me on to Erikson. diggin Erikson so much i'm on my way back through them all while waiting...

Finished "Cryptonomicon" last week, then finished the first book of Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy (The Darkness That Comes Before) over the weekend. Now I'm reading the second book, "The Warrior-Prophet". whoa :) rockin through the stephenson and bakker!! yeah! should do Er...

I loved those books when I was growing up. That brings back so many memories. I'd say my favorite one was probably "The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost" (that was the one where Fergie and the Professor had to save Johnny from possession by Windrow's ghost, right?), but they were all good. I ...

Finished "Cryptonomicon" last week, then finished the first book of Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy (The Darkness That Comes Before) over the weekend. Now I'm reading the second book, "The Warrior-Prophet".

Started "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson last night. Looking forward to getting into it now that I've read The Baroque Cycle.

Finished "The Dream of Scipio" last night. Once I got used to the narrative style, I really enjoyed it. The 3 stories are woven together very effectively and the philosophy behind it all is fascinating.

Avatar wrote:Man, that's frightening stuff...

...the implications could be very, very unpleasant.

--A

That was the first thought that came to mind.....right on the heels of the "Girlfriend Remote" I saw in "Maxim" a few years back.

Dragonlily wrote:OK, anyway, I moved it up the tbr's. The book attracted me from the start.

No problem, wasn't trying to discourage you from reading it or anything.